I support this proposed amendment. The rights of the minority are important, but one Senator should not be able to single-handedly stall the debate of a bill (Besides, if a motion to table can't even gain two sponsors, what's the likelihood of it passing?).

I kind of go back and forth on it. Yes, one Senator doing a motion to table can be annoying and slow down a bill. One can argue it our version of the filibuster. While that tactic was shamefully used in the era of civil rights and today, it was also used by Huey Long to champion the poor and Bernie Sanders to protest tax cuts.

I value parlimentary rules that allow for a lone principled dissenter to raise attention to his cause and fight to the very end. It may be annoying, and it may be used against bills I care about, but I have to say it is important to me.

Yeah, after four years of being a non-disruptive poster on the forum, never considered a troublemaker, even someone who was liked well enough to be elected Atlasian President, Napoleon should be allowed to stay.

If an idea is bad enough to be worth tabling, finding a Senator to second the motion should be trivial. Lone dissent isn't being stopped; vote nay to your heart's content. But don't muck up Senate business by flinging out motions to table legislation for no other reason than you dislike it like a machine gun.

If an idea is bad enough to be worth tabling, finding a Senator to second the motion should be trivial. Lone dissent isn't being stopped; vote nay to your heart's content. But don't muck up Senate business by flinging out motions to table legislation for no other reason than you dislike it like a machine gun.

Two things. I totally agree that motions to table should not be used just because you have a personality disagreement. That being said, I do not agree that getting a second will be that easy. What if there will a bill that I fundamentally thought was wrong, but the rest of the Senate just did not care or disagreed with me. By being able to slow down the debate by a motion to table I take a stand. We don't have the filibuster. Sometimes voting nay is just not enough.

The following bill has been up for debate for over three days and has seen no substantial debate for the last day or so, so I'm opening up a final vote on this resolution. Please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

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OSPR Amendment #97495

Section 5, Clause 1 of the Senate Rules, Regulations, and Procedures is amended to read:

1. Any Senator can, during a period of debate, with the support of one other Senator, introduce a motion to table the legislation.

Yeah, after four years of being a non-disruptive poster on the forum, never considered a troublemaker, even someone who was liked well enough to be elected Atlasian President, Napoleon should be allowed to stay.